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- Creator:
- Vernon, J. T
- Description:
- This thesis is in two parts, a critical introduction and a script for a graphic novel. The critical introduction examines Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost, using them as a foundation to define the term of literature to include Graphic Novels, specifically Neil Gaiman's The Sandman chronicles. The introduction discusses the influence of these three texts in the creation of Grey's Dawn, the second portion of this thesis. Grey's Dawn is the completed script of a fantasy-noir epic concerning fallen angels, alcoholic reporters, and global conspiracies. Keywords Graphic Novels; Paradise Lost; Dante's Inferno, comic books, fantasy noir, postmodem literature, Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Woolverton, Constance Marie
- Description:
- This study of the novels by Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Bronte examines the relationships between marriage and madness in many of the female characters. This thesis focuses on the social construction of madness and its use as a tool to mediate gender roles. The marriage-madness connection is displayed through female characters that are cured of their madness upon conformity through marriage and female characters who are punished through a process of labeling and confinement under the pretext of madness for non-conformity. KEYWORDS Bronte Madness Marriage Victorian Roles
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Kiker, Bryony Lynn
- Description:
- Throughout the majority of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the characters and readers examine not Troy's martial aim but the equally significant struggle for power in the microcosm of a romantic relationship. The two plots converge as the politics of war impede the love relationship and the Trojan council determines to trade Criseyde to the Greeks. As Hector strives fruitlessly to protect the vulnerable widow, Troilus neglects to voice a word of protest. While many critics have emphasized the exchange of women referenced in and signified by this crucial scene, I would like to diverge from that issue in order to examine Troilus's silence and passivity in this incident and throughout much of the poem. Early in the narrative, after the God of Love's arrow strikes Troilus, the soldier attempts to conceal his plight from the probing Pandarus. Disregarding his friend's protests, Pandarus persuades Troilus to disclose his secrets and, consequently, to cede his agency as a lover to the self-appointed go-between. At this point, Troilus situates himself in a powerless position from which he does not emerge for the majority of the narrative, and, in doing so, he gives Pandarus the ability to control the secrets in the text and to determine when and to whom to distribute them. Focusing on the economics of information and the commerce of secrets, we see that not only Troilus and Pandarus but the majority of the characters in Kiker 5 the text use information and secrets as a means to maintain autonomy and to gain control over others. Even the reader and narrator partake in this information exchange; the narrator carefully controls what facts (both authoritative and speculative) to divulge to the reader, who, in tum, sorts and absorbs the information received and retains the responsibility of interpreting the text in its entirety. However, the examples of Cassandra's explication of Troilus's dream and the hero's troubling silence at the town council indicate the delicate balance between revealing and concealing secrets, suggesting that when someone divulges more than is appropriate or hides truths better expressed, he or she will fail to achieve an influential position in society. Troilus's reticence in the presence of the Trojan council, in particular, indicates that the power gained through the wielding of knowledge is not only personal but also political. This suggests important parallels between the interchange of secrets in the text and the information exchange and protection intrinsic to Chaucer's social station in a dangerous political time, in which he struggled to retain a secure position in his society. When we analyze Chaucer's historical and social contexts and examine the conveyance of information in the text, we see that Troilus and Criseyde uses the commerce of secrets to assert that the circumspect use and withholding of information are crucial to one's survival in a precarious societal context.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Lemon, William
- Description:
- Words Fill Our Lungs explores the dialogue that we as readers develop with a text. Focusing in on Bakhtin's theory ofHeteroglossia and using it to demonstrate how and why a text can be passed from generation to generation, and still retain meaning. It also addresses the notion of aura, brought up by Walter Benjamin; and how this idea can change or alter our language acts. It will also construct new forms of discourse that utilize the expressive qualities that language can invoke. By challenging notions of genre, by blending 'fiction' and 'fact', 'academic' and' creative writing' to produce new critical space. Key Words: Bakhtin, M.M., Intertextuality, Benjamin, Walter, Aura, Mimesis, Manufacturing or Counterfeiting Aura, Language Acts
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies